Susie wants to make some hot cereal for breakfast.The directions say to use 3 cups of water with 1 cup of cereal to make 4 servings.Susie only wants 1 serving.How much cereal should she use?
use 1/4 of
3c water and 1c cereal
So, that's 1/4 c cereal.
To make 4 servings of hot cereal, the directions call for using 3 cups of water with 1 cup of cereal.
If Susie only wants to make 1 serving, she can proportionally reduce the amount of cereal.
To find out how much cereal Susie should use for 1 serving, we can set up a proportion:
1 serving / 4 servings = x cups of cereal / 1 cup of cereal
Cross-multiplying, we have:
1 * 1 cup of cereal = 4 * x cups of cereal
Simplifying, we get:
1 cup of cereal = 4x cups of cereal
Dividing both sides of the equation by 4, we find:
1/4 cup of cereal = x
Therefore, Susie should use 1/4 cup of cereal for 1 serving.
To determine how much cereal Susie should use for 1 serving, we can set up a proportion.
The given ratio is: 3 cups of water : 1 cup of cereal = 4 servings.
To find out how much cereal Susie should use, we can set up the proportion as follows:
3 cups of water / 1 cup of cereal = 4 servings / 1 serving
Now, we can solve for the unknown, which is the amount of cereal needed for 1 serving.
Cross-multiplying, we get:
3 cups of water * 1 serving = 4 servings * x cups of cereal
3 cups = 4x
Dividing both sides by 4, we find:
x = 3/4
So, Susie should use 0.75 (or three-fourths) of a cup of cereal for 1 serving.